Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-04-07
THEIR, INITIAL DECISION
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FIRST oFFIcAE RUENe Of TIE IN
& TeR-STATEFBoARD.

Ninety Days Grace Given Southern Rail-
ways by Suspension of the Long-and-
short-HauI Clause - The Row About
Ticket Commissions - Thirty kickers
Against the Trunk Line Rule.
WASHINGTON CITY, April THE inter
state commission passed most OF Wednesday
in private conference, celebrating on
the application of the Southern Rail-
way and Steamship association for a
temporary suspension Of the long and
short haul clause of the law. Late in the
afternoon the commissioners agreed on the
terms of their answer, and at z o'clock in
the evening their formal reply was com
pleted, and is as follows:
application having been made to the
interstate commission, under saction OF
the act to regulate commerce, by the South
ern Railway and Steamship association, an
organization composed of twenty mine rail-
road companies lines and systems, and
steamship lines operated in connection there
with, to charge less for longer than shorter
distances in certain cases for the transporta-
ton OF property from and to the principal
cities of the north ard south, between Bos-
ton and New Orleans, Norfolk and Mem
phis; and said common carriers having pre-
sented as reason for granting their appli-
cation the existence of water and other COM
petition, claiming that the same can not be
met except by maintaining the rates bel eto-
fore establ !shed to and from the said points,
which are alleged TO be too low to enable
| said common carriers to carry on business
| if applied TO local intermediate points; and
further claiming that great disturbance of
| business will occur if present traffic arrange
| nents and rates are Immediately changed; it
| is ordered:
THAT the said application be and the same
| hereby IS granted temporarily, subject to
modification or revocation by the commits
sion at any time upon hearing or otherwise;
and the said common carriers are hereby
temporarily relieved from the operation of
the fourth section of said act to the extent
specified in the recitals of this order, and for
period not greater than ninety days from
this date; subject however to the restriction
that none of the said common carriers, while
this order remains in force, shall in any case
charge or receive compensation for the trans
portation of property, between stations OF
their respective lines where more is charged
for shorter than for a longer haul, which
shall be greater than the rates in force, and
charged and received by said carriers re-
| spectivelv on the 5lst day of March, 1857,
schedules of which have been filed with the
commission"
Printed copies of this order are to be posted
at all stations of the roads interested
The commission will convene at Atlanta,
Ga, on the 26th day of April; Mobile, Ala,
April %, at New Orleans on May ., and at
Memphis, Tenn, on May ,, for the consider
alton of the subject matter of the petition OF
the southern companies, at which places and
times they may appear and present applica-
ton for relief Al the same places and times
any persons in opposing any such applica
ton may also appear and be heard.
The commission h as established permanent
headquarters in the fifth story OF The Bait
more Sun buildiug. for which the govern
ment pays Il rental of s.. 600 year.